The tilde is used in math to denote equivalence.
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Tilde
//ˈtɪldə//
Synonyms for "tilde" (1 found)
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10 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تِلْدَة noun (diacritical mark)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ти́лда noun (diacritical mark)
Catalan
2 entries- titlla noun (diacritical mark)
- titlla noun (character)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- کەشە noun (diacritical mark)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- ~ noun (diacritical mark)
- ∼ noun (diacritical mark)
- 波形號 /波形号 noun (diacritical mark)
- 波浪符 noun (diacritical mark)
Czech
3 entries- tilda noun (diacritical mark)
- vlnovka noun (diacritical mark)
- vlnovka noun (character)
Danish
1 entries- tilde noun (diacritical mark)
Dutch
2 entries- tilde noun (diacritical mark)
- tilde noun (character)
Esperanto
1 entries- tildo noun (diacritical mark)
Estonian
1 entries- tilde noun (diacritical mark)
Finnish
4 entries- aaltoviiva noun (diacritical mark)
- aaltoviiva noun (character)
- tilde noun (diacritical mark)
- tilde noun (character)
French
1 entries- tilde noun (diacritical mark)
German
3 entries- Schlangenlinie noun (diacritical mark)
- Tilde noun (diacritical mark)
- Tilde noun (character)
Greek
2 entries- περισπωμένη noun (diacritical mark)
- περισπωμένη noun (character)
Hebrew
2 entries- גַּל noun (diacritical mark)
- זַרְקָא noun (diacritical mark)
Hungarian
3 entries- hullám noun (diacritical mark)
- hullámvonal noun (diacritical mark)
- tilde noun (diacritical mark)
Icelandic
1 entries- bylgja noun (diacritical mark)
Italian
1 entries- tilde noun (diacritical mark)
Japanese
1 entries- チルダ noun (diacritical mark)
Macedonian
2 entries- ти́лда noun (diacritical mark)
- ти́лда noun (character)
Māori
1 entries- tire noun (diacritical mark)
Polish
2 entries- tylda noun (diacritical mark)
- tylda noun (character)
Portuguese
2 entries- til noun (diacritical mark)
- til noun (character)
Romanian
1 entries- tildă noun (diacritical mark)
Russian
2 entries- ти́льда noun (diacritical mark)
- ти́льда noun (character)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- tilda noun (diacritical mark)
Spanish
3 entries- tilde noun (diacritical mark)
- tilde noun (character)
- virgulilla noun (diacritical mark)
Swedish
1 entries- tilde noun (diacritical mark)
Tagalog
1 entries- tilde noun (diacritical mark)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ти́льда noun (diacritical mark)
- ти́льда noun (character)
Vietnamese
3 entries- dấu mềm noun (diacritical mark)
- dấu ngã noun (tone mark)
- dấu sóng noun (character)
Welsh
2 entries- tild noun (diacritical mark)
- tild noun (character)
Sample sentences
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For some years now, Zamboanga has officially adopted the orthographic standard for their Chabacano: Spanish spelling for Spanish-derived words and native spelling for indigenous-derived words. Before this change, there was a flux between Spanish and native spellings for all words. Some Chabacano people still are not aware of the official decision. Punctuation and capitalization follow those of American English and Tagalog. Accents are not generally used, except for the tilde in Ññ, which, to Hispanics, is not a separate accent, but is part of the letter itself.
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California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).
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The tilde was used similarly in Portuguese on vowels to show that the letter bearing the tilde should be pronounced nasally.
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